§ Mr. RHYS DAVIESasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what are the numbers and the nationality of the refugees in Europe and Asia, as at present recorded by the Hansen International Office for Refugees; what is the number and the nationality of such refugees within the United Kingdom; and what share of the expenses of administration and relief has been borne by His Majesty's Government during the last year for which returns are available?
§ Sir J. SIMONAccording to the most recent information collected by the Nansen International Office, there are in Europe, the Near East and China 934,700 refugees, of whom 755,000 are Russian refugees, 165,632 Armenian refugees and 14,068 Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean and Turkish refugees. As regards the second part of the question, the great majority of the persons who come within the definition of refugee adopted by the Nansen International Office have been continuously resident in the United Kingdom for a period commencing before the War. They are variously registered either as of no nationality or according to their nationality of origin, e.g. Russian, and no separate record of their number is available. The answer to the third part of the question is that Governments do not make individual 25W grants towards the expenses of the Nansen Office in respect of administration and relief; but the office receives an annual grant out of the League of Nations Budget. The grant for 1934 has been fixed at 300,000 gold francs.